Prepare and Publish Financial Statements with Ease

A core activity of finance teams is to publish financial data that is accurate, complete and entirely auditable. The type of key reports produced for a range of stakeholders may include, the Income Statement, the Balance Sheet and the Cash flow Statement.

Within the profession it’s often acknowledged that compiling these reports is becoming increasingly difficult due to short timeframes, inefficient tools, countless dependencies, downstream bottlenecks and reconciliation differences. This doesn’t have to be the accepted position.

Join Excel4apps On Thursday 11th October at 13:00 GMT for a look into how our tools can help you Prepare and Publish Financial Statements with Ease. We’ll be sharing our views on the challenges in this area and what we believe is the best solution for making this painful process smoother, involving fewer discrepancies and overall better able to pass internal and external scrutiny.

A core activity of finance teams is to publish financial data that is accurate, complete and entirely auditable. The type of key reports produced for a range of stakeholders may include, the Income Statement, the Balance Sheet and the Cash flow Statement.

Within the profession it’s often acknowledged that compiling these reports is becoming increasingly difficult due to short timeframes, inefficient tools, countless dependencies, downstream bottlenecks and reconciliation differences. This doesn’t have to be the accepted position.

Join Excel4apps On Thursday 11th October at 13:00 GMT for a look into how our tools can help you Prepare and Publish Financial Statements with Ease. We’ll be sharing our views on the challenges in this area and what we believe is the best solution for making this painful process smoother, involving fewer discrepancies and overall better able to pass internal and external scrutiny.

This Webinar is for anyone in finance who uses Oracle and is frustrated with the time it takes to handle consolidations.

The path to prepare consolidated financial reports is often plagued with complexity. It’s susceptible to error due to added manual intervention.

For organizations using native Oracle tools such as Financial Consolidation Hub or Global Consolidation System, these introduce efficiency to establish a set of consolidated balances. However, they do not present a flexible report solution to publish these balances. Often finance professionals resort to manual preparation of subsidiary consolidated financial reports directly in Excel. Manual preparation of financial reports introduces process inefficiency as balance adjustments in the Ledger impact report output and therefore re-invoke the repetitive time consuming steps of data import and report format.

If you’d like to discover a few of the ways that you can reduce the time it takes to handle Consolidation, join this webinar! We’ll discuss some of the inherent problems around Consolidation, some of the frustrations that are common to finance teams, and insight into how to reduce these problems and frustrations.

The balance sheet reconciliation is a key element of ‘closing the books’. It has long been an important control to ensure the accuracy of your financial statements, which in turn highlights the financial condition of your organisation. Reconciliations can identify mistakes and misappropriations and help to ensure that internal controls are being adhered to. Stringent review and scrutiny of balance sheet accounts during the period close cycle provides key stakeholders, management and auditors with assurance that internal controls are being applied and are working effectively.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss Balance Sheet Reconciliation – the good and the bad.

Join us to look at contributing factors to poor balance sheet reconciliations and how Excel4apps can help you to create a robust, efficient and seamless process.

We’ll explore:

- Time lost to repetitive and manual manipulation of data exported into Excel
- Frustrating dependency on IT to execute ad-hoc report customisation
- Audit risks due to not identifying potential fraudulent, improper or material transactions quickly.

Many of our Oracle customers have found that existing journal tools lack the ability to effectively validate financial data prior to uploading it into the General Ledger. There is also frustration at poor capability with multiple ledger journals, lack of automation and difficulty loading supporting documentation.

This and other topics are discussed in our upcoming Webinar, Ways to Accelerate Closing, Adjusting, Correcting & Recurring Journal Entries.

This webinar is part of our Series: 5 Areas to Accelerate Period End Close. This series will cover one aspect of the Period End close each month, giving you valuable tips on making the process faster and easier. Watch our BrightTALK channel for upcoming webinars in this series.

The period-end close cycle is a myriad of steps that include transaction processing, journal entry capture, and financial statement preparation. At its core, the close cycle must achieve proper cut-off of financial activities each month in a timely manner starting with the Subledgers. Close cycle delays at the Subledger level ultimately impact process efficiency upstream for the General Ledger close and preparation of the financial statements.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss some of the common frustrations with Subledger Close and how the Excel4apps solutions can solve these problems easily and cost effectively.

Please register here to learn some practical ways of making the Subledger Close a simpler process.

Are you an SAP® Analysis for Office user who wants some tips for getting around the frustrations you’ve experienced with reporting? Are you considering a move to this application but would be keen to see a cost effective alternative that leverages native Excel and installs easily?

Join us on Thursday, 7th June, 2018 at 12:00pm for our Webinar and lean how you can update your Planning and Financial Reporting.

Although Analysis for Office is positioned as an ad hoc and multi-dimensional analysis tool that makes it easy to filter and manipulate data in Excel, this is not always the reality. Many finance teams still run into roadblocks that make real-time reporting and analysis difficult.

Who is this webinar for?
- Anyone who uses BEx Analyser (or older) but is considering moving to Analysis for Office
- Anyone who uses Analysis for Office and has experienced the frustrations of reporting and analysis within this tool.
- Anyone looking for a more stable and reliable environment

In this webinar, we will focus on four key areas that can help you retain and enhance the Excel reporting you already have.

In this webcast, you will learn:

1. Beyond PIVOT tables – How integration with native Excel can bolster planning and reporting functionality;
2. Create real-time reports directly from SAP®;
3. Create and maintain reports...without the help of IT;
4. Empower users to use reports to their full potential – including modelling, analysis and drilldowns.

When it comes to closing your financial month end, finance is usually looking at a tedious and time-intensive process requiring skipped lunches and late nights. Our recent survey of 780+ financial professionals from around the world showed that 33% are taking 5 days to close their books for a single period with another 41% taking more than 5 days.

In this webinar, we will introduce five areas of the period end close process that you can easily expedite using Excel. By saving time and effort throughout your close, you can gain extra time for value-added tasks like audit preparations, data analysis, or simply getting to leave the office at a reasonable time. Gain insight into how you can accelerate 5 critical areas:
1.Subledger Close
2.Closing, Adjusting, Correcting, and Recurring Journal Entries
3.Balance Sheet Reconciliations
4.Consolidation
5.Preparing and Publishing Financial Statements

All financial professionals who are looking to shave time off their period-end close should attend this webinar.

Are you currently using or considering SAP® Analysis for Microsoft Office as a reporting solution? Although positioned as an ad hoc and multi-dimensional analysis tool that makes it easy to filter and manipulate data in Excel, the offering creates some challenges for Finance. In this webinar, we will focus on four key areas to keep in mind when using or considering SAP® Analysis for Microsoft Office.

In this webcast, you will learn:
How to tap into the many benefits of native Excel, not provided by Analysis for Office;
Create reports directly from SAP in real-time;
Reduce the reliance on IT to create and maintain reports;
Empower users to both consume, but also model and enrich reports.

Are you an SAP user? Are you feeling robbed of valuable execution time at month end due to laborious, time-intensive processes and complex tools? Do you rely on Excel during this tedious and stressful time, but find it to be too manual and inefficient? If so, you’re not alone!

Join Excel4apps for a guided tour into a typical SAP period-end process, its challenges and suggested ways to improve and streamline standard methods. Learn automation techniques and how you can leverage Excel-based tools to cut reporting time in half!

What you will learn:
-How connecting SAP to Excel directly can drive significant benefit for the business and users.
-Shorten period-end close to improve business KPIs and make finance teams happy again!
-Avoid continual re-work and duplication - never export to Excel again!
-Improve decision-making by having more time to analyse your data
-Remove reliance on IT at this critical time and allow Finance to build reports themselves for ad hoc enquiries
-Make adjusting and loading journals less of a headache
-Manage the close process from real-time Excel.

If you are a Finance or Accounting Professional or in IT supporting SAP and Finance and want to learn more about how you can achieve a faster, smarter and easier period-end process, then don’t miss this webinar

Are you feeling robbed of valuable execution time at month end due to laborious, time-intensive processes and complex tools? Do you rely on Excel during this tedious and stressful time, but find it to be too manual and inefficient? If so, you’re not alone!

Join Excel4apps for a guided tour into a typical Oracle EBS period-end process, its challenges and suggested ways to improve and streamline standard methods. Learn automation techniques and how you can leverage Excel-based tools to cut reporting time in half!

What you will learn:
-Shorten period-end close to improve business KPIs and make finance teams happy again!
-Avoid continual re-work and duplication - never export to Excel again!
-Improve decision-making by having more time to analyse your data
-Remove reliance on IT at this critical time and allow Finance to build reports themselves
-Make adjusting and loading journals less of a headache
-Manage the entire close process from real-time Excel.

If you are a Finance or Accounting Professional wanting to learn more about how you can achieve a faster, smarter and easier period-end process, then don’t miss this webinar!

How easy is to keep track of multiple Enterprise Projects within your business? Do you find it easy to get the information you need out of SAP? Or do you frequently rely on data downloads and reformatting to make sense of the data, leading potentially to errors and out-of-date reports?

Join us next week for a webinar on how you can easily simplify your SAP Project Reporting with Real-Time Reporting in Excel.

What you’ll learn:
•Use your favourite tool, Excel, for reporting on Enterprise Projects
•Achieve 1 Single Version of the truth in Excel
•Easily build Excel templates that refresh with Real-Time data instantly
•Easily build and refresh Project Dashboards and summary reports
•Eliminate Spreadsheet Risk such as spreadsheet errors and version control issues
•Personalise report templates to Accommodate Different Stakeholders
•Report on Transactional Data, Master Data, and more in Excel
•Ability to Drill Down on transactional data, giving you true insights into the figures.

Excel4apps uses the SAP authorisation user-IDs and profiles, it’s deployed quickly and with little training needed. It allows businesses to easily keep their finger on the pulse of multiple projects by providing real-time data to all stakeholders when and how they need it.

Attend this webinar if you are a Financial Analyst or a Project Manager looking to simplify your project reporting…and your life too!

Would you like to learn the best Excel shortcuts of all time? Then, join Mr Excel. He will take you through his top 40 Excel shortcuts you can’t live without!

Knowing Excel shortcuts can not only save you time, but it will increase your efficiency at work, making you look like a pro! In this webinar, Bill Jelen - known as MrExcel - will take you through his all time favourite shortcuts. After the webinar, receive a handy one-page summary that you can keep by your desk to remind you of all the great tips and tricks that you could be using.

What you’ll learn:
•Navigate quickly in Excel, both within and between worksheets
•Format cells in Excel
•Select large data sets in Excel
•Enter formulas quickly
•Create perfect charts in 1 keystroke
•Plus 35 more shortcuts!

Attend this webinar if you are a Finance or Accounting professional and/or are interested in improving your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level.

Part 1 of this two-webinar series looked at the strategic challenges facing organisations using SAP following the launch of SA/Hana. This part 2 focuses instead on the departmental challenges, and what these developments might mean for operational reporting. In many organisation today, the reality of the reporting environment might means that experienced business users spend 80% of their day manipulating data rather than interpreting it. So, while your CFO might quite rightly be looking at S4/Hana and digitalisation, we would encourage businesses to also Fix Today’s Problems Today, as the real-time access to data discussed in this webinar will not only support but accelerate your path to digitalisation.

This webinar focuses on some of the challenges facing organisations using SAP today. There's a lot of noise in the marketplace following the launch of S4/Hana. What does it mean for organisations? How may SA/Hana impact IT and Finance and what does it mean for reporting? Perhaps, most importantly, how can businesses address these challenges so that they are able to improve performance today while safeguarding their investment for the future? This presentation looks at how businesses can fix today's problems today, while also planning for tomorrow.

Are you frustrated at the mainly standard, readily structured reports available in SAP? Are you still using Excel to do a lot of the ‘heavy lifting’ reporting?

Regardless of IT policy, Excel is still the go-to-tool for most users to transform their data into something meaningful. Yet, static spreadsheets inherently create issues around version control, complex cross referencing, master data references and calculation errors, all of which is an Audit Risk. The responsibility for this tends to fall between the Business and IT and can become a necessary evil.

Attend this webinar to hear how you can overcome these issues using an Excel add-in from Excel4apps.

What you'll learn:
•Achieve a genuine Single Version of the Truth - discover how you can access live SAP data in real-time from an Excel front-end - your data remains in SAP but you view it from Excel.
•Reduce Financial Reporting and Consolidation Time by 70% - learn how Excel4apps helps you accomplish this goal by solving many SAP Process Challenges.
•See the Management Reporting capabilities of the award-winning GL Wand in action - be inspired to transform your period-end process.

If you’d like to find out more about how you can manage spreadsheet risk while still using Excel for reporting, then don’t miss this webinar.

Oracle reporting can be cumbersome and inefficient. Closing month end, performing ad-hoc analysis, reconciling and other reporting tasks are becoming increasingly difficult. Deadlines get shorter, executives are delayed in making critical decisions, working late becomes the norm, and frustration increases.

Join Malcolm Hewlett and David Rincon from Excel4apps for a live webinar where you will learn how to:
•Alleviate the pains of month-end by replacing FSGs and Web ADI
•Prepare efficient, professional reports for business presentations and sharing
•Eliminated dependence on IT, empower end-users, and shorten month-end processes.

See a demo of GL Wand and Journal Wand - the ultimate Oracle Financial Reporting package - in action. A quick win for Finance teams, GL Wand and Journal Wand:
•Decrease reliance on IT - eliminate cumbersome Oracle reporting tools like FSGs and Web ADI
•Increase efficiency and empower end-users - automate ad-hoc reports and analysis in Excel
•Streamline real-time data from Oracle into Excel – data is validated and refreshed at the click of a button.

GL Wand and Journal Wand make it easy to obtain, analyse, share, and present essential information when and how you need it so you can create a 360-degree month end reporting process and wave goodbye to those late nights and weekends at the office.

Impress your colleagues at your next meeting by creating striking Dashboards that engage and deliver the key information management needs at a glance!

Join MrExcel as he takes you through all the steps to design Interactive Excel Dashboards from start to finish. He will illustrate how to best display the information that summarises key results on 1 page.

Here's what you'll learn:
•Create Visually Rich Dashboards that fit on 1 page
•Provide answers to key questions at a glance
•Design Interactive Dashboards using slicers
•Use Power Query to prepare data for Dashboarding
•Create tiny, Cell-Sized Charts using icons and sparklines
•Display top 10 and Key Performance Indicators in Dashboards
•Add Photos to Dashboards
•Publish Dashboards to the Web using Excel on-line.

Who'll be speaking:
Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of 43 books about Microsoft Excel including, “Pivot Table Data Crunching” and “Excel Gurus Gone Wild”. He has made over 80 guest appearances on American TV's “Call for Help” with Leo Laporte, and was voted guest of the year on the “Computer America” radio show. Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Bill spent twelve years "in the trenches", as a financial analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing and operations departments of a publicly held company.

This is a free MrExcel.com webinar sponsored by Excel4apps - Excel-based Real-Time Solutions that People Love.

Are you or your finance users struggling with time constraints in entering manual FI/CO type entries into SAP? Are you limited by your current financial custom uploading tool? Don’t worry, there is a cure.

Entering financial or journal entries into SAP efficiently is essential to managing all aspects of your business, yet manually keying all those entries (one line at a time) into inflexible SAP T-code entry screens can be time consuming and painful. The IT Department can build your staff a home-grown custom loader for loading journal entry information into SAP; however, these batch loaders tend to be limited and inflexible, don’t handle errors well, and require ongoing IT support and maintenance. It is merely a band aid to a larger issue.

GLSU is an Excel add-in for uploading financial data into SAP. It streamlines financial data entry and reporting without the dependency on IT making it the ultimate cure. Additional GLSU features include:
1. Park and Post all from Excel
2. Sophisticated error handling and business logic
3. Excel templates created and modified in seconds with no programming or scripting.

Attend this webinar to learn:
• What current SAP financial uploading tools are often used today
• The limitations for SAP users in their current FI/CO entry process
• How GLSU, a financial spreadsheet uploader for SAP, can help reduce the manual waste and increase efficiency.

Rolling forecasts can be a powerful differentiator for companies striving to remain competitive. Unfortunately, most organisations can’t achieve them today. What if it didn’t have to take years, large investments and big process changes to get there? Your current technology, processes and planning models might be closer than you think.

Business users in many organisations spend far too much time simply trying to access the data they need from their enterprise reporting systems (ERPs). Woes around reporting on that data are common place…

Are you a Finance or ERP professional looking at starting real-time conversations with your data? Do you love Excel? Then you’ll love us! Excel4apps provides the power of Excel as an interface to live ERP data without programming support, data exports, errors and waiting.